RandomControl unveils Arion for 3ds Max 3
Hybrid physically based renderer gets support for hair and fur. Now available in open beta.
Thursday, June 19th, 2014
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Solid Iris Technologies releases Thea Render 1.3
Updated: GPU render engine gets speed boosts, instancing and SSS; also physical sky and Z-clipping.
Wednesday, December 18th, 2013
Eye candy: Disney's snow simulation system from Frozen
See strange things simulated with CG snow in this video of the tech behind the new animated feature.
Thursday, November 21st, 2013
Arion 2.5 to add new Caustics and Shadows AOVs
Now shipping: update also boosts raytracing speed, maximum render size, adds link to HDR Light Studio.
Monday, September 30th, 2013
Solid Iris Technologies ships Thea Render 1.2
Hybrid biased/unbiased renderer gets final-quality GPU-based engine, new 'field mapping' technology.
Tuesday, June 25th, 2013
Get the new ArionBench CUDA benchmark tool
Torture your Nvidia card with RandomControl's Arion-renderer-based GPU benchmarking tool.
Friday, March 8th, 2013
Motiva releases Thea for 3ds Max
New plugin integrates Thea Render engine inside Max, including support for Particle Flow and instancing.
Tuesday, February 19th, 2013
RandomControl previews relighting in Arion 2.4
Physically based hybrid CPU/GPU renderer to export new 'LightMixer' layers without raising render times.
Monday, January 21st, 2013
RandomControl releases Arion 2.0
Physically accurate hybrid renderer gets major update - but it's now mainly for Max and Softimage users.
Wednesday, August 29th, 2012
Thinkbox's Ember will let you mix fire and water sims
New tool will act like a compositor for simulations, enabling artists to splice elements into hybrid sims.
Tuesday, July 17th, 2012
Isotropix announces Clarisse iFX
New hybrid renderer, compositor and animation package 'reinvents' how artists create final images.
Wednesday, May 30th, 2012
Jawset Visual Computing releases TurbulenceFD
As seen on Terra Nova: hybrid gaseous fluid simulator for Cinema 4D and LightWave gets full release.
Friday, March 9th, 2012
RandomControl releases Arion 1.6
Second major update to software in three weeks offers support for rendering scenes of infinite size.
Wednesday, December 28th, 2011